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Vermont authorities said a 71-year-old victim died at the hospital while his 88-year-old brother was pronounced dead on the scene.

Authorities in Vermont are warning ice fishers to stay off the ice of a lake after three people died after falling into the lake last week.

Data received by the U.S. National Weather Service Burlington showed the temperature in the area reached 7 to 15 degrees above normal this past week.

Meanwhile, in Maine, two men riding an ATV broke through the ice on Sunday and were rescued by a game warden and sheriff’s deputy in Searsmont.

The deaths of three men forced officials in Vermont to cancel the annual Islands Ice Fishing Derby on Saturday.

SOUTH HERO, Vt. (AP) — After three men fell through the ice and died this past week while fishing on Lake Champlain, the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department warned people on Saturday to stay off the frozen lake due to unsafe conditions.

The Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department has issued an advisory for people to stay off Lake Champlain ice and to be extremely cautious on all other bodies of water.

(BURLINGTON, Vt.) -- Authorities in Vermont are warning ice fishers to stay off the ice of a lake after three people died in the last week. The Vermont Fish and

SOUTH HERO, Vt. (AP) — Vermont authorities could not have done anything more to prevent the deaths of three ice fishermen who fell through the ice on Lake Champlain in two separate incidents within days of each other, the head of the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department said Tuesday.

The Grand Isle County Sheriff’s Department aske that this past weekends Islands Ice Fishing Derby be cancelled due to unsafe ice conditions.